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Amor de Perdição 3.46 · 3.46

Would four censers turn her head?

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Quem me diz a mim que Thereza teria em si as quatro mulheres da maxima, se o vapor de quatro incensorios lhe estonteasse o espirito?

Who tells me that Thereza would not hold in herself the four women of the maxim, if the fume of four censers should ever turn her head?

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The narrator's honest doubt: who can say Thereza would not become the four women of the maxim, if the fumes of four flattering suitors ever went to her head?

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